Why do Major Label Music Companies Suck so Hard?

[lizard]

because they do shit like this:

Unreleased Nirvana Due

"Sliver" compilation to feature three more tracks from the archives


Three previously unreleased Nirvana songs will surface November 1st when Geffen/Universal issue Sliver, a compilation of Nirvana rarities and demos. The twenty-two-track CD will be rounded out with material from With the Lights Out, the Nirvana box set released last November. Sliver marks the first time Frances Bean Cobain, the thirteen-year-old daughter of late Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain and rocker Courtney Love, has taken an active role in her father's legacy. "We're pulling Frances into the family business," Love told Rolling Stone.

In addition to helping select the title, Frances Bean also played a role in choosing the cover image. "Courtney and I involve Frances in Nirvana/Kurt decisions whenever we can," says Peter Asher, who manages Love and the Cobain estate. "She's very perceptive and has cool ideas."

With the Lights Out was delayed for several years due to legal battles between Love and surviving Nirvana members Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl, but there were no such troubles with Sliver.


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so fans like Nad have to shell out a full CD price for a measly three new tracks, which never made the cut in the first place. Most major record companies do this shit, and some of the indies...but David Geffen deserves a special place in hell.

 

[Conspicuously Absent]

major music companies = corporation = greed.

 

[Chromatose]

I think Courtney Love is the one to blame here ...

 

[lizard]

apparently her "solo" album sucked bad and she probably had to make a deal with Satan/Geffen to get some crack cash.

I'd be interested in knowing what the two survivors think about this milking the vaults. Novaselik (sp) seems to be a guy with real integrity and Grohl doesn't need the extra income.

 

[lizard]

and this is completely different from Dark Symphonies rereleasing Maudlin of the Well's "Bath" and "Leaving Your Body Map" with additional tracks, because they had allowed them to go out of print in the first place.

 

[Demonspell]

First time I'm hearing about this, and those are albums where the order definitely does not need to be interrupted by bonus tracks...I hope they had enough respect for continuity and did NOT include the secret song.

 

[NAD]

I think Courtney Love is the one to blame here ...

absolutely. chris and dave tried to release a giant boxset for years but courtney always blocked it, because they had a three-way agreement thingy with the nirvana archives. fucking blows, it should be up the band and the band only, that whore was the one who made the "greatest hits" bullshit with ONE NEW SONG a few years ago.

this is like, the only time i don't blame a major label for something dickly. it's that cuntney bitch.

ps: she killed kurt.